Expense On Maids A Factor For Giving Them Too Much Work, Experts Say

Industry sources say that one of the explanations why sponsors give more work to housemaids is because of the big expenses incurred by sponsors in hiring a maid in the UAE. An emigrant who wants to hire a maid from her native country will have to pay up to AED 30000 for two years. This amount includes the application cost, processing, bank guarantee, visa stamping, medical and vaccine fees. However, this cost does not comprise the salary of the housemaid.
The expenditure for local sponsors is lesser at around AED 10000 because they not required to pay a bank guarantee of AED 2000 and visa stamping fees of about AED 5000. Filipina housemaids continue to be the best choice for employers. However due to the minimum salary required to pay Filipino maids which is about AED 1469 (US$ 400), sponsors go for Indonesian housemaids whose salaries vary between AED 800 to AED 900. An owner of a maid agency in dubai says that A Filipino maid’s salary is comparatively high and this is the reason precisely why sponsors grant more work them. He adds that before they used to arrange for more Filipina housemaids, but not now because the salary requisite is strict and sponsors are not willing to pay that much. Furthermore, he says that despite of all this if an employer indeed wants a Filipino maid, he will hire her. Apart from the household duties, the maids are also asked to coach the kids of the sponsor and teach them English because some of the Filipino maids are college graduates. Another person from a dubai housemaid agency says that there is a clear model in hiring housemaids between expatriates and locals. In the case of expatriates, they just hire one maid and pay the correct salary. However they make use of their housemaids to the fullest and are granted a day off. Local sponsors time and again give the minimum salary because they usually employ more than one housemaid per family. In the case of local families, there is a trend of having a minimum of two maids to a maximum of five maids. And since they employ more housemaids, they often pay less the minimum salary stipulated and also they do not give the maids a day off.Maids agency in dubai say that even though there is a huge demand for maids in the UAE, they are over and over again exploited by some employers by giving them too much work. The excuse they give is the huge expenses they shoulder in to hire a maid. Even though finding the right employer or the right maid is not a herculean task. It is always advisable to find a housemaid or look for an employer from a reputable and reliable maid agency. This way, it will be beneficial for both the employer and the housemaid.